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AIDS, first reported in the U.S. in 1979, is a disease that breaks-down the body's natural immune response system and leaves its victims open to opportunistic infections and cancers. Additionally, patients with AIDS frequently develop mental illnesses, such as dementia or meningitis, caused by the AIDS virus. Scientists believe at present that AIDS is caused by a virus similar to herpes called Human T-Lymphotrophic Virus Type III (HTLV-III) which infects the white blood cells. But while the virus has been linked to AIDS, it does not always produce the deadly and debilitating disease. Sometimes, it causes...
...fiercely funny comedy. Far more shocking revelations have already emerged along the way, on matters ranging from race to motherhood to incest. Playwright Sandra Deer has created a clan of faded gentry who mingle the greed of the family in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes with the lubricious dementia of Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart. Yet Deer has a kinder heart toward her characters than either author. The result, while likely to strike some playgoers as scandalous, is the most impressive playwriting debut of the New York season...
Alzheimer's disease, first reported by Elois Alzheimer more than 80 years ago, is a type of disease called dementia. Victims of the illness experience no physical disability but suffer progressive loss of memory. In the advanced stages of the disease, many victims cannot remember words long enough to form coherent sentences and do not recognize members of their family...
Holman said additional research will focus on related forms of dementia and the development of "brain signature" patterns in Alzheimer's disease...
Audiences outside the artistic ghetto required a little more conditioning to this kind of dementia, and it was film and video that set the Heads up without settling them down. Byrne, who writes most of the group's material, helped work up two videos, Once in a Lifetime and Burning Down the House, that cut straight through the dross on MTV. They were innovative and gratifyingly out of place. In a program of other rock videos, they looked as if Robert Wilson, en route to Einstein on the Beach, had opened the wrong studio door and stumbled onto Soul Train...